US EditionTwin who allegedly urged sister to take fall for deadly Amish buggy crash is jailed for four years
- On Thursday, Judge Jeremy Clinefelter sentenced Samantha Jo Petersen, 37, of Wabasha to four years and ordered nearly $40,000 in restitution after her guilty plea.
- Shortly, Samantha Jo Petersen's SUV struck an Amish buggy on County Road 1 near County Road 102 in rural Fillmore County, authorities said she was high on methamphetamine when the crash killed two children.
- Investigators found cellphone and bodycam evidence showing Samantha was the driver, and crash reconstruction showed the SUV was going 63-71 mph in a 55 mph zone.
- Petersen will serve two years, eight months in custody with potential supervised release, and her twin Sarah Beth Petersen was sentenced earlier this year to 90 days in jail plus 120 days of house arrest.
- Before sentencing, Samantha Peterson told the court, `I wish with everything in me that I could go back and change what happened,' according to KARE; the crash killed Wilma Miller, 7, and Irma Miller, 11, and left siblings injured, including one with a traumatic brain injury.
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Twin who allegedly urged sister to take fall for deadly Amish buggy crash is sentenced to 4 years
A Minnesota woman who allegedly urged her twin sister to take responsibility for a deadly Amish buggy crash in 2023 was sentenced to four years in state prison.
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One News PageTwin who allegedly urged sister to take fall for deadly Amish buggy crash is jailed for four years
Samantha Petersen's twin sister Sarah initially told police that she was driving, following a crash in Minnesota in which two young girls were killed.
Twin who allegedly urged sister to take fall for deadly Amish buggy crash in Minnesota is sentenced to 4 years
A Minnesota woman who allegedly urged her twin sister to take responsibility for a deadly Amish buggy crash in 2023 was sentenced this week to four years in state prison.
Prison for woman who admitted she was driving, not her twin, when she hit buggy and killed 2 Amish kids
A 37-year-old woman received a four-year term after admitting that she — and not her twin sister — was driving when her SUV struck an Amish buggy in southeastern Minnesota and killed two of the four children aboard. Samantha Jo…
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